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The Opening Night Parade may have been cancelled due to the record breaking downpour on the day, but that didn’t stop a crowd of 20,000 flock to the East End streets of Adelaide for an afternoon celebration just two weeks later. Featuring key elements of the Fringe Parade it was an epic return involving Kaurna dancers and musicians, fluoro-clad cheerleaders, stilt walkers, salsa dancers and much more !

Were you there? Join our Flickr Group! Have you been at the many other Fringe programmed events including Wonderland, Street Theatre Festival, Desert Fringe, Visibility, Spirit Festival and more? We would love to see your pics. Join the Adelaide Fringe Flickr Group and add your photos the set!

Every festival needs a super fan and we’re on a search to find the ultimate one in 2011! Don’t worry, we’re not looking for Michael Jackson level of obsessive screaming fans that have had plastic surgery just to resemble him. Not everyone can get away with having tentacles for arms, we know that!

What do you have to do? Well, to be in with a chance to be crowned Fringe fan of the year, all you have to do is take a picture of yourself Fringed up to the max! Extra points for those that get a shot of themselves in the brand-new merchandise range. Then simply upload the pic to our Facebook Fan Page.

The winner will not only receive a $50 Fringe gift voucher to spend as they please, but will also win a pair of double passes to the exclusive Fringe Club on nightly from 6pm throughout the festival!

If you’ve ever thought about travelling to Adelaide to experience Adelaide Fringe, now is your chance to find out all about it. Pick up an Adelaide Fringe program from the utterly unique caravan and stay to enjoy the show!

Adelaide Fringe on tour is well and truly underway! The Fringe Caravan team arrived in Melbourne safely and after bundling in enough acts to keep the crowds entertained all day long come rain or shine, here’s an extended postcard of the journey so far. Boy what a journey it’s been!

The road from Adelaide to Melbourne sure ain’t a short one but that didn’t stop the excitement along the way. We made sure to spread the good word (and poster) of the Adelaide Fringe from Coomadook to Tintinara and everywhere inbetween. People were delighted to hear the Adelaide Fringe was heading their way!

Never one for a minute’s rest, Sam kept a careful eye on the caravan along the way to ensure nothing was going to slow us down!

Day one in Melbourne’s Federation Square got off to a flying start! Kicking off the proceedings we had Letitia Maher’s Sunset Soiree, where we were treated to some enchanting songs surrounding the desire for popcorn and some awesome sounding owls!

Rounding off the first set of the day, we were treated to The Twoks who literally rocked the caravan with their music!

Taking us back to the 40’s, the oh so glamorous World War Wonderful ladies gave us some rousing patriotic songs about losing limbs in battle and the cautions of who we sleep with. Take note!

Finishing off this super Sunday was The Spaces Between featuring the stunning Amanda Palmer in addition to her many adoring fans!

Tonight we bid farewell to Melbourne and get back on the road to Sydney, see you at Bondi!

Are you in Melbourne this weekend? Did you miss Saturday’s jam-packed program of performances on the Fringe Caravan Showcase Stage? Well there’s still time to be gobbsmacked! Stroll down to Federations Square and enjoy the lineup of circus, theatre, cabaret, music and comedic acts today and tomorrow. See you down there!

So it’s only a matter of hours until it’s out in the open and you can read it for yourself in your very own copy of the Fringe Guide but we just CAN’T WAIT that long! Check out the Adelaide Fringe Opening Night Line-Up below. Follow the Parade into Wonderland for a night of top music across not one but two stages as Fuse @ Fringe takes its place alongside the Fringe Stage for the first time!

Australia’s largest and most popular arts festival can no longer be contained to the streets of Adelaide!

Adelaide Fringe Caravan is going on tour to Melbourne and Sydney and bringing all the fun of a program packed full of cabaret, comedy, circus, dance, film, music, puppetry, theatre, art and design with it.

The caravan will roll into Federation Square from Saturday January 8 to Monday January 10 to showcase jaw-dropping physical theatre, memorable cabaret, brilliant music, international comedians, energetic mayhem and a hell of a lot of good fun – and all for free!

Start by calling it Adelaide Fringe’s box office, stick it in the middle of Rundle Mall and cram it full of enough gift vouchers to give Father Christmas present envy. The brand-spanking new FringeTIX Box Office opened to the public last weekend in Rundle Mall. Not only will the box office be situated there in the lead up to and throughout the Festival, but the new Fringe hub will be complete when our very own Caravan Showcase Stage takes its place under the Gawler Place Canopy right next door! Hosting a line-up of top Fringe performers daily throughout the Adelaide Fringe 2011, it’s the perfect place to ponder who’s show you want to go and see.

For those in need of buying some top quality Christmas presents, vouchers can be bought priced from $15 to $200 for music, theatre, comedy, circus and dance events in the Adelaide Fringe. That’s not all, to solve the most frustrating of problems, (by that we mean keeping your beverage icey in the scorching summer months), stubby holders are also available…perfect!

Vouchers can be redeemed for tickets once the Adelaide Fringe guide is released on Saturday, January 8. Adelaide Fringe gift vouchers are also available for purchase online at www.adelaidefringe.com.au.

If you were anywhere near Rundle Mall last Thursday, you can’t have missed the giant white cube that took over Gawler Place Canopy for what was certainly more than your average poster launch…

From the outside the cube gave away nothing of the Adelaide Fringe 2011 poster design so we encouraged the whole of the city to come along and pop their head under to see what all of the fuss was about. As some people approached with sheer determination to find out what was inside, others made their way towards it with a hint of hesitation in every step. Regardless of initial reactions to the mysterious obstacle, everyone that ventured under came out with a smile on their face be that from the live animation of the poster and infectious music that accompanied it or from the realisation that this was just a glimpse of the transformation that the city will undergo for Adelaide Fringe from 18 February – 13 March, 2011.

If you missed out on the action of last week, you can check out more of the pics on our Flickr OR if you were there and have any pics you would like to share then join our Adelaide Fringe Flickr group and add your photos to the set.

Adelaide Fringe has shown continued strong growth for yet another year, with at least 740 events registered to take part in the festival from Friday, February 18 to Sunday, March 13.

Adelaide Fringe’s 2011 poster created by 31-year-old Bulgarian designer Kamen Goranov is as strong as event registrations, featuring two wild characters made up of a collage of photography, stencil, paint and computer-generated imagery. Kamen’s prize includes a $1000 Flight Centre voucher.

“I’m so happy my poster will represent Adelaide Fringe,” Kamen said. “The inspiration for my design was to create an ironic, sarcastic and humorous image combining different elements, using mainly a collage technique. As Adelaide is situated on the coast I gave both characters some marine attributes, a ship tattoo for the king and octopus arms for the queen. My intention was to create some weird, strange icon but with some attributes, like the two crowns, that identify them as king and queen.”
Adelaide Fringe Director and Chief Executive Greg Clarke said like many Adelaide Fringe events, the two characters defy classification.

“Adelaide Fringe is about diversity and our alternative king and queen embody this,” Greg said. “Kamen’s entry was chosen as his characters capture the spirit of Adelaide Fringe – they are different, imaginative, diverse, to some strange, to others playful and out of this world.

“Adelaide Fringe has often received national and international entries, but this is the first year someone from overseas has won. Adelaide Fringe is a world-renowned arts festival that attracts artists and audiences from all over the globe, so we’re happy to welcome an international designer to the family of Adelaide Fringe poster competition winners.”

Bring on the roadhouse hot dogs and Aussie rock playlists – Adelaide Fringe is hitting the road for the 2011 artist info sessions!

Stopping off at Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, the Artist Services team will be answering stacks of questions from artists, presenters and producers who are interested in registering an event in Adelaide Fringe 2011.

So come along, pick their brains and then pack your bags for 24 hot summer days and nights at Adelaide Fringe 2011!

The Adelaide Fringe Artist Services team has been eagerly awaiting this moment for five months. With a decade of experience between them, they have become addicts of the artist variety. They need their fix – they need artists to register!

The phones are up and running, the office mirror ball dusted, the rug laid, the lamps lit and the how-to guides bound. The Artist Services team – Michelle, Carin and Eugene – are ready to answer all questions about how to register a show, find a venue or even get over to Adelaide. They’ll even let you in on all the hot tips on running shows and exhibitions while having the time of your life (Patrick Swayze moments not included).

The Adelaide Fringe is giving artists, designers, students and amateurs alike the chance of a lifetime to design the 2011 Fringe poster.

For the first time, all design submissions will be made online and entrants are encouraged to incorporate a range of mediums such as animation, sculpture, photography, painting and computer-generated and digital imagery.

The Brief
We invite entrants to let their mind run free and create an iconic or ironic ‘King and Queen of the Fringe’. They could exist in a parallel Adelaide Fringe universe but must embody the creative spirit of the Adelaide Fringe. From cyber punk to manga, street art to pop, our very own Fringe Royalty exists in a fantastical world where only the strongest, boldest and most colourful will survive.

Only create a ‘King and Queen of the Fringe’ and do not include the ‘Adelaide Fringe 2011′ text or dates.

The Perks
The winner will enjoy national and international exposure, their design promoting the largest arts event in the Southern Hemisphere. The image will feature on the front cover of the largest arts festival print run in Australia, the 2011 Adelaide Fringe Guide and to sweeten the deal the winner will also receive a $1,000 Flight Centre
travel voucher.

If you were in Adelaide during Adelaide Fringe 2010, there’s no way you could have missed the giant inflatable astronauts dotted around town ranging in size from 10 to 14 metres. They were scaling buildings, chilling out in the city’s squares, dive-bombing Fringe venues, parks and educational institutions.

If you were a fan, have we got news for you!? As you can imagine, for an organisation like ours, we don’t really have further use for our beautiful inflatable friends so we’re offering one up for sale on ebay. Check it out here – the possibilities are endless…

“Suitable for a range of marketing activities where you need to create a point of interest. Can be attached to a building or roof. The inflatable comes complete with industrial inflation blower and anchor ropes. All the anchor points are double sewed and we can supply rating information for all of these points for those interested. Suit company looking to create a marketing spalsh or concert, event or theatrical companies looking for interesting design collateral.”